Importing BPEL Processes into BizTalk

Importing BPEL processes into BizTalk is quite easy. BizTalk provides a separate project template called the BizTalk Server BPEL Import Project, which will bring up a wizard to take you through the BPEL import procedure step by step. However, there are a few things you need to take care of before importing business processes:

• Ensure that the Name property of the WSDL definition node and that of the BPEL process node are not the same.

• Do not use any XLANG/s reserved words in your BPEL.

• Use only simple types predefined in XSD.

Now let us use the asynchronous travel process example we saw in Chapter 3 to import into BizTalk and see how it goes.

But before we do that we need to make a few modifications to the .wsdl files. The .wsdl files (Travel.wsdl, Airline.wsdl, and Employee.wsdl) used in the travel process example in Chapter 3 uses the RPC style, whereas BizTalk currently does not support the RPC style and requires that the .wsdl files be in Document style...